[iOS] UIImage array 2 Video

iOSUIImageArray2Video.swift

//http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3741323/how-do-i-export-uiimage-array-as-a-movie/3742212#3742212

import AVFoundation
import UIKit
import Photos

struct RenderSettings {

    var width: CGFloat = 1334
    var height: CGFloat = 750
    var fps: Int32 = 30   // 30 frames per second
    var avCodecKey = AVVideoCodecH264
    var videoFilename = "render"
    var videoFilenameExt = "mp4"

    var size: CGSize {
        return CGSize(width: width, height: height)
    }

    var outputURL: NSURL {
        // Use the CachesDirectory so the rendered video file sticks around as long as we need it to.
        // Using the CachesDirectory ensures the file won't be included in a backup of the app.
        let fileManager = NSFileManager.defaultManager()
        if let tmpDirURL = try? fileManager.URLForDirectory(.CachesDirectory, inDomain: .UserDomainMask, appropriateForURL: nil, create: true) {
            return tmpDirURL.URLByAppendingPathComponent(videoFilename).URLByAppendingPathExtension(videoFilenameExt)
        }
        fatalError("URLForDirectory() failed")
    }
}

/*
The ImageAnimator class knows about your images and uses the VideoWriter class to perform the rendering. 
The idea is to keep the video content code separate from the low-level AVFoundation code. I also added 
saveToLibrary() here as a class function which gets called at the end of the chain to save the video to the Photo Library.
*/
class ImageAnimator {

    // Apple suggests a timescale of 600 because it's a multiple of standard video rates 24, 25, 30, 60 fps etc.
    static let kTimescale: Int32 = 600

    let settings: RenderSettings
    let videoWriter: VideoWriter
    var images: [UIImage]!

    var frameNum = 0

    class func saveToLibrary(videoURL: NSURL) {
        PHPhotoLibrary.requestAuthorization { status in
            guard status == .Authorized else { return }

            PHPhotoLibrary.sharedPhotoLibrary().performChanges({
                PHAssetChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetFromVideoAtFileURL(videoURL)
                }) { success, error in
                    if !success {
                        print("Could not save video to photo library:", error)
                    }
            }
        }
    }

    class func removeFileAtURL(fileURL: NSURL) {
        do {
            try NSFileManager.defaultManager().removeItemAtPath(fileURL.path!)
        }
        catch _ as NSError {
            // Assume file doesn't exist.
        }
    }

    init(renderSettings: RenderSettings) {
        settings = renderSettings
        videoWriter = VideoWriter(renderSettings: settings)
        images = loadImages()
    }

    func render(completion: ()->Void) {

        // The VideoWriter will fail if a file exists at the URL, so clear it out first.
        ImageAnimator.removeFileAtURL(settings.outputURL)

        videoWriter.start()
        videoWriter.render(appendPixelBuffers) {
            ImageAnimator.saveToLibrary(self.settings.outputURL)
            completion()
        }

    }

    // Replace this logic with your own.
    func loadImages() -> [UIImage] {
        var images = [UIImage]()
        for index in 1...10 {
            let filename = "\(index).jpg"
            images.append(UIImage(named: filename)!)
        }
        return images
    }

    // This is the callback function for VideoWriter.render()
    func appendPixelBuffers(writer: VideoWriter) -> Bool {

        let frameDuration = CMTimeMake(Int64(ImageAnimator.kTimescale / settings.fps), ImageAnimator.kTimescale)

        while !images.isEmpty {

            if writer.isReadyForData == false {
                // Inform writer we have more buffers to write.
                return false
            }

            let image = images.removeFirst()
            let presentationTime = CMTimeMultiply(frameDuration, Int32(frameNum))
            let success = videoWriter.addImage(image, withPresentationTime: presentationTime)
            if success == false {
                fatalError("addImage() failed")
            }
            frameNum++
        }
        // Inform writer all buffers have been written.
        return true
    }
}

/*
The VideoWriter class does all AVFoundation heavy lifting. It's mostly a wrapper around 
AVAssetWriter and AVAssetWriterInput. It also contains fancy code written by not me that 
knows how to translate an image into a CVPixelBuffer.
*/
class VideoWriter {

    let renderSettings: RenderSettings

    var videoWriter: AVAssetWriter!
    var videoWriterInput: AVAssetWriterInput!
    var pixelBufferAdaptor: AVAssetWriterInputPixelBufferAdaptor!

    var isReadyForData: Bool {
        return videoWriterInput?.readyForMoreMediaData ?? false
    }

    class func pixelBufferFromImage(image: UIImage, pixelBufferPool: CVPixelBufferPool, size: CGSize) -> CVPixelBuffer {

        var pixelBufferOut: CVPixelBuffer?

        let status = CVPixelBufferPoolCreatePixelBuffer(kCFAllocatorDefault, pixelBufferPool, &pixelBufferOut)
        if status != kCVReturnSuccess {
            fatalError("CVPixelBufferPoolCreatePixelBuffer() failed")
        }

        let pixelBuffer = pixelBufferOut!

        CVPixelBufferLockBaseAddress(pixelBuffer, 0)

        let data = CVPixelBufferGetBaseAddress(pixelBuffer)
        let rgbColorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB()
        let context = CGBitmapContextCreate(data, Int(size.width), Int(size.height),
            8, CVPixelBufferGetBytesPerRow(pixelBuffer), rgbColorSpace, CGImageAlphaInfo.PremultipliedFirst.rawValue)

        CGContextClearRect(context, CGRectMake(0, 0, size.width, size.height))

        let horizontalRatio = size.width / image.size.width
        let verticalRatio = size.height / image.size.height
        //aspectRatio = max(horizontalRatio, verticalRatio) // ScaleAspectFill
        let aspectRatio = min(horizontalRatio, verticalRatio) // ScaleAspectFit

        let newSize = CGSize(width: image.size.width * aspectRatio, height: image.size.height * aspectRatio)

        let x = newSize.width < size.width ? (size.width - newSize.width) / 2 : 0
        let y = newSize.height < size.height ? (size.height - newSize.height) / 2 : 0

        CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(x, y, newSize.width, newSize.height), image.CGImage)
        CVPixelBufferUnlockBaseAddress(pixelBuffer, 0)

        return pixelBuffer
    }

    init(renderSettings: RenderSettings) {
        self.renderSettings = renderSettings
    }

    func start() {

        let avOutputSettings: [String: AnyObject] = [
            AVVideoCodecKey: renderSettings.avCodecKey,
            AVVideoWidthKey: NSNumber(float: Float(renderSettings.width)),
            AVVideoHeightKey: NSNumber(float: Float(renderSettings.height))
        ]

        func createPixelBufferAdaptor() {
            let sourcePixelBufferAttributesDictionary = [
                kCVPixelBufferPixelFormatTypeKey as String: NSNumber(unsignedInt: kCVPixelFormatType_32ARGB),
                kCVPixelBufferWidthKey as String: NSNumber(float: Float(renderSettings.width)),
                kCVPixelBufferHeightKey as String: NSNumber(float: Float(renderSettings.height))
            ]
            pixelBufferAdaptor = AVAssetWriterInputPixelBufferAdaptor(assetWriterInput: videoWriterInput,
                sourcePixelBufferAttributes: sourcePixelBufferAttributesDictionary)
        }

        func createAssetWriter(outputURL: NSURL) -> AVAssetWriter {
            guard let assetWriter = try? AVAssetWriter(URL: outputURL, fileType: AVFileTypeMPEG4) else {
                fatalError("AVAssetWriter() failed")
            }

            guard assetWriter.canApplyOutputSettings(avOutputSettings, forMediaType: AVMediaTypeVideo) else {
                fatalError("canApplyOutputSettings() failed")
            }

            return assetWriter
        }

        videoWriter = createAssetWriter(renderSettings.outputURL)
        videoWriterInput = AVAssetWriterInput(mediaType: AVMediaTypeVideo, outputSettings: avOutputSettings)

        if videoWriter.canAddInput(videoWriterInput) {
            videoWriter.addInput(videoWriterInput)
        }
        else {
            fatalError("canAddInput() returned false")
        }

        // The pixel buffer adaptor must be created before we start writing.
        createPixelBufferAdaptor()

        if videoWriter.startWriting() == false {
            fatalError("startWriting() failed")
        }

        videoWriter.startSessionAtSourceTime(kCMTimeZero)

        precondition(pixelBufferAdaptor.pixelBufferPool != nil, "nil pixelBufferPool")
    }

    func render(appendPixelBuffers: (VideoWriter)->Bool, completion: ()->Void) {

        precondition(videoWriter != nil, "Call start() to initialze the writer")

        let queue = dispatch_queue_create("mediaInputQueue", nil)
        videoWriterInput.requestMediaDataWhenReadyOnQueue(queue) {
            let isFinished = appendPixelBuffers(self)
            if isFinished {
                self.videoWriterInput.markAsFinished()
                self.videoWriter.finishWritingWithCompletionHandler() {
                    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue()) {
                        completion()
                    }
                }
            }
            else {
                // Fall through. The closure will be called again when the writer is ready.
            }
        }
    }

    func addImage(image: UIImage, withPresentationTime presentationTime: CMTime) -> Bool {

        precondition(pixelBufferAdaptor != nil, "Call start() to initialze the writer")

        let pixelBuffer = VideoWriter.pixelBufferFromImage(image, pixelBufferPool: pixelBufferAdaptor.pixelBufferPool!, size: renderSettings.size)
        return pixelBufferAdaptor.appendPixelBuffer(pixelBuffer, withPresentationTime: presentationTime)
    }
}

let settings = RenderSettings()
let imageAnimator = ImageAnimator(renderSettings: settings)
imageAnimator.render() {
    print("yes")
}

Thanks for the code. What if you have so many images that they can't fit into a single array (due to memory issues). For example I have 2000 images of high resolution, and I can't fit them all into an array.

The code wasn't made by me, it comes from a stackoverflow post. Maybe you could post the question there. In any case, I think you'd need to refactor the images.removeFirst() at line 111, to instead load the image from wherever it is stored.